Five-year-old girl found dead in Khayelitsha shortly after being reported missing

A 33-year-old man has been arrested.

The body of a five-year-old girl was found by residents in Harare informal settlement in Khayelitsha on Tuesday afternoon, EWN reports.

Uyanda Stuurman had been reported missing after she was last seen playing outside her grandmother’s house on Monday.

She was found with a stab wound to the chest and a 33-year-old man has been arrested and charged with rape and murder.

Police spokesperson said the community had launched a search party for the missing girl.

“A young girl went missing after she’d been seen playing at her grandmother’s house on 23 July. The child left for home, but she never arrived. The community started searching for her and found her clothes near a shack, where her body was also found.”